Coffee lovers tend to be passionate about their cup of java, and Ramsey Smith is no exception. He and his wife, Cathy, have made it their business to bring exotic beans and rich flavors to the islands ...

The patron called Snake gestures toward the blue-felt pool table in the coffeepot-shaped bar in Tacoma. "I call it the 'pool ghost.' Not everyone has seen it," Snake told The News Tribune on a Monday ...

Bob’s Java Jive is a bar — a dive bar, to be more specific — in the truest sense of the name. Shaped like a big coffee pot, and stained by decades of cheap spilled beer and long nights, the South ...

Last year, the lines for the Charleston Coffee Cup extended down the steps at Memminger Auditorium, and at one point, well down the sidewalk. That’s evidence of the growing coffee culture we have here ...

THE MOST SURPRISING thing about Bob’s Java Jive in Tacoma is not that it is a building shaped like a coffeepot. The most surprising thing is that the shape is the least interesting thing about it. You ...